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Someone told me that Bane's ultimate goes through Black King Bar. Are there other item effects or hero skills that can disable thorough it and that can be used to counter heroes that heavily rely on ...

We just lost two times in a row because of an unstoppable Anti-Mage in the other team.
Both games were very long (50-70 minutes) and even though we paid attention to not feed him or his team nor let ...

What are the spells which can pull heroes out of Chronosphere?
Pudge's hook can pull,
What about Eath Spirit's Geomagnetic Grips, Force staffs, Vengi's Swap, Thrall's Glimpse, Kunkka's X Mark. I Can ...

For example my hero currently does a 15% lifesteal from it's basic attack of 50.
When it trigger a critical strike doubling my damage to 100, does my lifesteal also doubles the amount?
Is it the same ...

What makes some heroes work better in a certain lane than any other? I've heard in some casts where the commentator predicts which lanes which heroes will pick even before the game has started.
I'm ...

One reason why I avoid Morphling is because I can never tell when (if at all) I should begin to use his morph ability to transfer stats between strength and agility. What are some typical situations ...

After finally getting 4 friends on my team, we decided to go try those trilane setup commonly seen on tournament matches. After 3 consecutive loss using that setup, makes us wonder what is it that we ...

If I'm playing the Gorgon and purchase for her a Helm of the Dominator, does the lifesteal apply to all three of my multishot arrows or just one of them?
Kudos if you can explain how multishot does ...

Peers often tell me that Dota is more about skill of the player, and not really on the heroes themselves.
This talk happened after the epic win of Alliance versus Na'Vi, with me agreeing that Na'Vi ...

I completely suck at DotA (though I am somewhat familiar with Nevermore); I can never kill any enemy heroes even on easy. What strategies can I use to defeat enemy heroes?
I do the basics: get last ...

Can somebody please tell me how to prevent creeps from spawning in DotA? I have Googled it but can't find a command that will achieve this.
I have tried -killall , -spawnoff , -disablecreepspawn, but ...

It is a known fact that putting wards inside the neutral spawn camps prevents them from spawning but recently, I see our neutrals camps not spawning any creeps.
I checked the replay and saw that the ...

I'm having problems winning a game if the opponent's team has a good morphling player. The problem starts as soon as their morphling acquires one of his core items, Linken Sphere.
The situation gets ...

I am just wondering, is there some tips for Leshrac the Malicious, the guy seems to have powerful skills, but if I choose to increase the intelligence (for mana) he is too weak, increase the strength ...

I played a lot to League of Legends (>1000 hours) and I am going to try DotA now. Speaking about gameplay only, it would be really helpful for a newbie knowing what are the main differences between ...